The CEVRO Institute is a private university in Prague, Czech Republic. It offers BA and MA degrees in a wide range of social sciences and several professional post-graduate programs.
History
CEVRO Institute was established on 15 September 2005, by CEVRO – Liberal-Conservative Academy, a nonpartisan think tank created in 1999 to provide political education, democracy assistance and capacity building for democratic leaders and parties from around the world. CEVRO Institute is a small private college located in the center of the city of historical Prague. The Institute's main goal is to provide quality cross-disciplinary education in the area of social sciences - law, public administration, economics, business, political science, international relations and security. Mirek Topolánek, then Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, presided over the opening of the university, praising CEVRO's founding as a testament to the free enterprise system. As of 2020, the current president is economist :cz:Josef Šíma |Josef Šíma, and the board chairman is Ivan Langer. Tomáš Pojar, the vice president for International Relations of the CEVRO Institute, is the former Ambassador of the Czech Republic to Israel.
Programs
The school offers 12 academic programs, 2 of them in English. In the fall of 2016, the school launched a unique PPE MA program taught in English with international faculty from both Europe and the United States. Specialization tracks include Studies of Transition, Austrian Economics, International Politics, Studies of Objectivism, Behavioral Policy Making, Law and Economics. Peter Boettke called the program "a wonderful educational and life experience for the next generation of potential thought leaders... Just a phenomenal opportunity to live learning." In the fall of 2020, the school launches an international BA program Economics, Business, Politics.
Classical Liberalism in Economics, Business, Politics
Central Europe: Challenges and Opportunities
Facility
The central facility of CEVRO Institute is in a historic building in downtown Prague.
Student Life
As of 2020 student body includes full-time, exchange and study abroad students coming from over 30 countries.
Journal
CEVRO Institute publishes New Perspectives on Political Economy, a peer-reviewed, semi-annual, bilingual, interdisciplinary journal. Its main objective is to enhance the understanding of private property, market, and individual liberty-based perspectives in the respected sciences, mostly from the Austrian School.
Prague Conference on Political Economy
Prague Conference on Political Economy - PCPE - is an annual international and interdisciplinary gathering of scholars focusing on cross-disciplinary research in the tradition of PPE, PPE&L or the Austrian School of Economics and political economy of freedom organized in Prague since 2005. Two annual memorial lectures - :cz: František Čuhel|Franz Cuhel Memorial Lecture and Friedrich von Wieser Memorial Lecture - are dedicated to the memory of two scholars whose lives are tight with the city of Prague. CEVRO Institute has been the main PCPE organizer since 2010. ; Franz Cuhel Memorial Prize recipients
